Fixes#59545.
Suppress the macOS General/Tailscale initial hydration apply path from rewriting openclaw.json when settings are unchanged, and add regression coverage for gateway/auth/meta/wizard preservation.
Verified on the retry head 8a30aa831c:
- GitHub CI completed successfully, including macos-node, macos-swift, check-docs, security, Workflow Sanity, and OpenGrep.
- Review threads were empty before merge.
- Duplicate sweep kept #59545 as the canonical standalone issue; no duplicate closures were appropriate.
Preserve existing gateway.auth and unrelated config keys during macOS app fallback writes, while requiring explicit opt-in for auth mutation paths.\n\nValidation:\n- swift test --package-path apps/macos --filter OpenClawIPCTests.OpenClawConfigFileTests\n- swift test --package-path apps/macos --filter OpenClawIPCTests.ConfigStoreTests\n- node scripts/check-changed.mjs CHANGELOG.md apps/macos/Sources/OpenClaw/ConfigStore.swift apps/macos/Sources/OpenClaw/OpenClawConfigFile.swift apps/macos/Sources/OpenClaw/TailscaleIntegrationSection.swift apps/macos/Tests/OpenClawIPCTests/OpenClawConfigFileTests.swift\n\nCloses #75631.
Replaces JavaScriptCore catalog evaluation with a bounded fail-closed object-literal parser for the generated macOS model catalog.\n\nValidation: macos-node, macos-swift, security-fast, security-scm-fast, security-dependency-audit, workflow sanity checks passed on PR #73112.
Fixes#68160.
Drops stale optionality from the hello-ok auth schema and keeps generated Swift models, macOS fixtures, browser client types, protocol docs, and merged-base test boundaries aligned.
Keep WhatsApp QR login state synced across gateway, macOS, and UI wait flows.
- Preserve the latest QR data URL/version while login polling rotates codes.
- Keep the wait-result protocol bounded to current QR metadata.
- Stabilize QR rendering and media fixture coverage after rebasing on main.
Validation:
- pnpm test extensions/whatsapp/src/login-qr.test.ts extensions/whatsapp/src/media.test.ts extensions/whatsapp/src/agent-tools-login.test.ts src/gateway/protocol/channels.schema.test.ts src/gateway/server-methods/web.start.test.ts ui/src/ui/controllers/channels.test.ts
- pnpm test:extension whatsapp
- cd apps/macos && swift test --filter ChannelsSettingsSmokeTests
- GitHub PR checks: 62 success, 5 skipped
* fix(exec-approvals): escape control characters in display sanitizers
* docs(changelog): add exec approval control-char display sanitizer entry
* fix(exec-approvals): redact before escape, cover U+2028/U+2029 in display sanitizers
* fix(exec-approvals): strip invisibles before redaction and align forwarder test
* fix(exec-approvals): cover Zs bypass and preserve multi-line context on obfuscated secrets
* fix(exec-approvals): compare redaction outputs by content, not length
* fix(exec-approvals): suppress raw command on bypass; cover non-ASCII Zs in macOS sanitizer
* fix(exec-approvals): use position-bitmap bypass detection and bound input size
* style(exec-approvals): satisfy oxlint no-new-array-single-argument and SwiftFormat
* fix(exec-approvals): iterate by code point and redact before truncating
`openclaw --version` outputs "OpenClaw 2026.x.y-z" but
readGatewayVersion() passed the full string to Semver.parse(),
which failed on the "OpenClaw " prefix. This caused the app to
fall back to reading package.json from a local source checkout
(~/Projects/openclaw), reporting a false version mismatch.
Strip the product name prefix before parsing so the installed
CLI version is correctly recognized.
